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Physics & Astronomy

New Insights Into Superconducting Processes in Quantum Tech

The development of a quantum computer that can solve problems, which classical computers can only solve with great effort or not at all – this is the goal…

Health & Medicine

Understanding Sensory Perception Beyond Simple Brain Processes

If we cross a road with our smartphone in view, a car horn or engine noise will startle us. In everyday life we can easily combine information from different…

Life & Chemistry

Statins Uncovered: How Cholesterol Drugs Cause Muscle Pain

Cholesterol-lowering drugs, which are commonly referred to as statins, are some of the most frequently prescribed drugs around the world. Generally speaking,…

Materials Sciences

Silver Sawtooth Generates Valley-Coherent Light in Nanophotonics

Tungsten disulfide has interesting electronic properties and is available as a 2D material. 'The electronic structure of monolayer tungsten disulfide shows two…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Discover the Latest Demonstrator in Industrie 4.0 at HM 2020

“Plants only use some wavelengths of light for photosynthesis, and the idea is to create greenhouses that make energy from that unused light while allowing…

Life & Chemistry

Bacterial influencers — rhizosphere microbiome mediates root metabolite exudation

By producing certain exudates, plants communicate with and govern the microbial life within their rhizosphere for their own benefit. Now, researchers have…

Life & Chemistry

Minimally Invasive Hydrogen Therapy for Cancer Treatment

However, these techniques usually rely on chemical and genetic drugs or exotic nanomaterials to actualize treatments, making them quite difficult or debatable…

Life & Chemistry

Wuhan Coronavirus Evolution and Spike Protein Modeling Insights

The current public health emergency partially resembles the emergence of the SARS outbreak in southern China in 2002, which led to more than 8,000 human…

Life & Chemistry

When Genetic Material Is ‘Smuggled’ into the Next Plant Generation

Father, mother, child: That is the classic reproduction strategy in nature, both for animals and for plants. However, since 2017, other rules apply in the…

Life & Chemistry

Inner “clockwork” sets the time for cell division in bacteria

The ability of pathogens to multiply in the host is crucial for the spread of infections. The speed of bacterial division greatly depends on the environmental…

Life & Chemistry

Rogue Cell Communication Linked to Leukaemia in New Study

In adults, billions of mature blood cells are formed from haematopoietic stem cells in the bone marrow every day. This process is tightly regulated by a family…

Physics & Astronomy

FEFU Scientists Create New Method for Quantum Computer Elements

FEFU scientists, together with colleagues from the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and foreign experts, designed a resonant lattice laser…

Health & Medicine

UNH Study Reveals Key Role of Memory Cell Synchronization

“There are tens of millions of neurons in the hippocampus but only a small fraction of them are involved in this learning process” said Xuanmao (Mao) Chen,…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on Age-Related Macular Degeneration Treatment

The suggestion that AMD was caused by a failure of complement regulation in the eye has catalysed a rush to develop drugs that inhibit complement to treat…

Power and Electrical Engineering

How iron carbenes store energy from sunlight — and why they aren't better at it

Photosensitizers are molecules that absorb sunlight and pass that energy along to generate electricity or drive chemical reactions.

Life & Chemistry

UCLA Study Reveals Path to Lab-Grown Eggs and Sperm

The study, published in the journal Cell Reports, describes the way in which human stem cells evolve into germ cells, the precursors for egg and sperm cells.

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